plis
\pli\
The verdict
“plis” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,211
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plis · plis · French
plis · rank #16,211 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,211
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaqué
Nearest frequency peer: plaqué (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « plis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pion
pion
83,793 corpus weight
- pittoresque
pittoresque
83,792 corpus weight
- plaqué
plaqué
83,791 corpus weight
- plis
plis
83,790 corpus weight
- postales
postales
83,789 corpus weight
- poussés
poussés
83,788 corpus weight
What this shows « plis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pli\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around plis (IPA \pli\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,211 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pli.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for plis, with forms such as "lpis", "pils", and "pliss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "plu", "pts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plis, spelled P-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pli.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sixte du Châtelet portait un pantalon d’une blancheur éblouissante, à sous-pieds intérieurs qui le maintenaient dans ses plis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpis
- pils
- pliss
- pllis
- plsi
- pplis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).